Reversing-gearing.



B. S. TRUXAL.

. REVERSING GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED 00117, 1907.

929,520, Patented July 27, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED OOT.17, 1907.

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Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Jul 27,1909.

Application filed October 17, 1907. Serial No. 397,844;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. TRUXAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful improvements in Reversing-Gearing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to reversing gearing. I can utilize such gearing in many different ways, one of which is in connection with a vertically movable car or platform such as that employed for carrying materials and the like from the ground to the upper portion of a building during the construction of the latter. Said reversing gearing comprises two pairs of gears, one pair of gears having a circumferential engagement and one gear of the other pair engaging the com panion gear internall thereof. These pairs of gears are prefer-ab y carried by independent shafts and in the present case one gear of each pair is carried by what might be considered the primary shaft of the apparatus, while the other gears are carried by what might be considered the secondary shaft of the apparatus. Preferably the primary shaft 18 power driven and, by alternately putting the gears thereon into driving relation'therewith, the secondary shaft can be driven alternately in opposite directions. 1 use the terms primary and secondary simply for convenience of illustration; in the present case the primary shaft is the driving shaft, while the secondary shaft is the driven shaft. These conditions, however, might be'reversed. By virtue of the organization outlin'ed I can reverse the movement of the secondary or driven shaft whether the same be in one or more sections without the necessity of changing the motion of the primary or driving shaft. While the two gears carried by the rimary or driving shaft may be of any suitable char actor, I find that I can with advantage employ toothed gears for this purpose, the sec- -ondary or driven shaft also carrying toothed ears meshing with those on the primary or driving shaft, it being clear that one toothed gear internally engages the complemental toothed gear, the other toothed gears having a peripheral engagement. The primary or driving gears are alternately coupled to the primary or driving shaft in some suitable way, and for this purpose I may employ clutch mechanism such as that covered in my co-pending application Serial No. 397,845 filed October 17, 1907.

In the drawings accompan ing and formmg part of this specification have shown in ful one effective embodiment of the invention which, to enable those skilled in the art to ractioe the same, will be set forth in detai in the following descri tion, while the novelty of the invention wil be included in the claims succeeding said description.

Referring to said drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of hoisting apparatus involving my invention, one of the gears being partially in section or broken away and the hand-lever being also in section. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the a paratus. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the clutch mechanism. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the clutch mechanism. Fig. 6 is a detail view in perspective of a portion of the hand-lever and brake-setting device so arated from each other.

ike characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The difierent parts of the apparatus may be sustained upon a bed or foundation plate as 2; and among these parts is a shaft as 3 which constitutes the main, primary, or driving shaft of the apparatus. This shaft 3 ma be operated in any suitable way. In ad ition to the primer shaft 3 there is a secondary shaft as 4. boss two shafts are sustained by suitable bearings rising from the bed or plate 2. In the present case the shaft 3 carries two pinions 5 and 6 which are loose with respect to said shaft 3, although they are fastened in some suitable way to the elongated hubs 7 and 8 of the wheels 9 and 10 res actively, which are loosely supported direct y by said shaft 3. As wil hereinafter appear the pinions 5 and 6 are adapted to be put into drivin connection alternately with the shaft 3. e pinion 5 is shown as mesh ing with the gear 11. Both these gears 5 and 11 are eripherally toothed and their engagement 1; ierefore is a peripheral or circumferential one. The gear 6 cooperates with the gear 12. The gears 11 and 12 may be fastened to the driven or secondary shaft 4. in any desirable way. The gear 12 is shown as having a circumferential rim or flange 33 toothed on its inner side to en agc with the teeth of the pinion 6; and it therefore follows that the gear 6 internally engages the gear12. As 1 fastened to the shaft 3.

the two gears 5 and 6 are loosely carried by the shaft 3 and as the two cooperating gears 11 and 12 are fastened to the shaft 4,-1t follows that, when the gear 5 is in action, the shaft 4 will be turned in one direction and that, when the gear 6 is in action, said shaft 4 will be turned in the opposite directlon. Reversal of the motion 0 the shaft 4 can therefore be obtained without reversing the shaft 3. The gear 12 may be peri herally grooved to receive one or severa turns thereon of a cable, band, or equivalent de vice, the branches of which may extend to an elevator or hoisting platform for the purpose of operating said elevator or hoisting platform from the shaft 4. The shaft 4 may also have fastened thereto a drum or spool 14 around which a cable maybe wound, or two cables may be wound upon said drum or spool, one to be paid off and the other to be coiled thereabout on the turning of the shaft 4.

The wheels 9 and 10 constitute halves or sections of two clutches, the other sections thereof consisting of divided rings as 15 and 16 (see Figs. 4 and 5 for example.) In Fig. 5 the ring 15 and certain parts cooperative therewith are shown in detail and for this reason will now be specifically described. The resilient or spring ring 15 has at one end thereof the radial inwardly-extending arm 17 and with the same is connected an elongated hub 18.keyed or otherwise suitably The arm 17 pivotally supports a lever as 19 the toe of which is adapted to engage the free end of the s ring ring for the purpose of expanding the atter into frictional engagement with the marginal flange 9 of the wheel 9. When the ring 16 is expanded it engages the similar flan e 10 of the wheel 10. The hub of the radial arm or ring 16 is designated by 18 The two hubs 18 and 18, both of which as will be understood are fastened to the shaft 3, fit nearly end to end and slidingly support the sleeve 20 which moves op ositely from the neutral position which it is indicated as occupying in Fig. 4 for the pur ose of alternately circumferentially expan ing the two rings 15 and.

16. To the opposite ends of the sleeve 20 .are pivoted the inner ends of rods as 21, said rods extending outward from said sleeve and through perforations or slots in the tails of the two levers 19, as shown clearly in Fig. 5.

' rods 21.

Around said rods are coiled s rings as 22 hearing against the tails of the evers 19 and against nuts as 23 adjustably fitted to said.

W hen therefore the sleeve 20 is operated to expand either of the rings 15 or 16 a yieldable effect is applied to said rings from the sleeve 20 by virtue of the springs 22. When the sleeve 20 is in its intermediate position as shown in Fig. 4 neither of the rings 15 or 16 will engage the rims 9 or 10 by reason of the resiliency of said rings. By moving the sleeve 20 sufficiently far to the left in Fig. 4 it will be clear that the wheel 9' and therefore the pinion 5 will be clutched to the shaft 3. right sufiiciently far the wheel 10 and conse'- quently the pinion 6 will be clutched to said shaft 3.

The handle for operating the sleeve 20 longitudinally of the shaft 3 is designated in a general way by 23 and it consists in the present case of a rocker as 24 (see Fig. 6) and a handle ortion as 25 fastened to said rocker. T e rocker 24 is supported by suitable bearings on the bed 2 which bed with said bearings constitutes the framework of the apparatus. The axis of motion of the rocker is shown as being transverse to the direction of motion of the sleeve 20. The rocker 24 is represented as having a yoke 26 the branches of which are provided with inwardly-disposed pins as 27 to enter a peripheral roove in the sleeve 20. When the handjever 23 stands vertically the sleeve 20 is in its intermediate or neutral position, and said lever is shown as being in said vertical position in both Figs. 2 and 3. The rocker 24 is provided with a vertical projection 28 channeled to receive the handle portion 25, the two parts being united in any desirable manner, for example, by bolts.

Supported by suitable bearings in the bed 2 is a rock-shaft as 29, said rock-shaft 29 con stituting part of the brake-setting mechanism for the two wheels 9 and 10. This shaft 29, has fastened thereto the weighted arm 30 constituting a convenient means for automatically o erating the shaft 29. In addition to sai weighted arm 30 the shaft has fastened thereto two other arms as 31 and 32 and extending laterally from these arms 31 and 32 are ins as 33 and 34 to which are connected bra e bands or straps as 35 and 36 respectively. The straps 35 and 36 surround the peripheries of the flanges or rims 9 and 10, respectively, and the ends thereof opposite those connected with the pins 33 and 34 are connected to vertically adjustable blocks as 37 (see Fig. 3 for example) by adjusting which wear in the two flanges or rims 9' and 10 may be taken up. The blocks 37 are normally stationary. The rocker 24 is shown as furnished with the lateral extensions 38 and 39 respectively cooperative with the rock-arms 31 and 32. The rock-arms3l and 32 overlie the extensions 38 and 39 respectively. The weighted arm 30, acting t By moving said sleeve 20 to the rough the rock-shaft 29, is what maintains pend the ring 15 and thereby put the pinion into driving relation withthe shaft 3. I This 1 operation is accomplished by swingin the hand-lever 23 to the left in Fig. 2. en said handlever thus swings the extension or projection 38 will be lowered, while the ex- I tension 39 will be raised thereby causin saidprojection 39 to engage the arm 3'2 to l' t the weighted arm 30 and thereby unset simultaneously the two brake bands and 36, the two brake bands being unloosed fully when the ring 15 is clutched tothe rim 9. When the hand-lever 23 is returned to its neutral position to unclutch the ring 15 from the rim 9 the two brake bands 35 and 33 are simultaneously set by the dro ping of the weighted arm 30. Should the and-lever be swung to the right from its neutral position the projection or extension 38 will engage the arm 31 so as to simultaneousl unset the two brake bands 35 and 36. T e hand-lever 23 is positively maintained in its central orneutral position by the power of the two push springs 22.

What I claim is: 1. The combination of two pinions, whee rotative with the respective inions, means for simultaneously braking t e two wheels, means for throwing said wheels alternately into driving relation with "a source of power and for simultaneously relieving them from I the action of the braking means, two gears one peripherall engaged 'by one of the pinionsand the'ot er internally engaged by the other of said pinions, and a shaft to which said gears are attached? 2. The combination of a air of driving members, clutch means for ternately connecting said driving members with a source 'of power, means for controlling said clutch means, comprising a rocker, a brake cooperative with each driving member, and an automaticall -o erative brake-setting device for said ra es, said rocker being adapted to occupy a neutral position with both driving members out of cooperative relation with said source of power and during which it permits said brake-setting device to occu y an operative position, and being mova 1e o positely from said neu tral position to cause t e o eration of said brake-setting device and t e unsetting of said brakes.

3. The combination of a air of driving members, clutch means to a ternately conweighted arm and also provided with' pro- {cations each of the latter e uipped with a ateral extension, and band rakes coo erative with the respective driving mem ers and one end of each'being connected with one of said extensions, said rocker having lateral extensions to enga c said projections.

4. The combination of a air of driving members, clutch means for a ternately connecting said driving members with a source of power, means for controlling said clutch means, including a movably mounted member,' abrake cooperative with each driving member, and an automaticall operative brake-setting device for said brakes, said movably mounted member bein adapted to occupy a neutral position with both driving more ers out of cooperative relation with said source of power and during which it permits saidbrakesetting device to occupy an operative position and be movable oppositely from said neutral position to cause the operation of said clutch means and the unsetting of said brakes.

5. n' reversing gearing of the type set forth, in combination, gear elements, a source of power, means for connecting any one of said elements in driving relation to the source ofpower, a rocking member engaged with said means to effect 0 oration thereof, automatically operating raking means for the gear elements, including means for setting and releasing said braking means com rising a rock shaft, a weight thereon, an arms carried thereby and projecting therefrom, and arms carried by said rocking member for engagement with the arms on said rock shaft to operate the'latter nesses.

BENJAMIN S. TRUXAL. Witnesses S. C. ELLIs, H. Hnvwoon. 

